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In this letter, dated February 18, 1619, Sir William Throckmorton, Richard Berkeley, George
Thorpe, and John Smyth inform Sir George Yeardley, governor of Virginia, that they have secured a patent for
their plantation venture, Berkeley Hundred.

Transcription from Original

Sr we hold it fit to let you knowe, That since your dep[ar]ture
from England, we have procured our patent for planta[tion] in Virginia (a copy
whereof we herewth send vnto you written by the virginian boy of
mee George Thorpe) wherin accordinge to your agreement with mee George Thorpe, your
name is vsed for five shares, done by the advise of SrEdwine Sands, but if you
please to cast more of your shares amongst vs (wch we also wish)
we shall willingly assent theirvnto.

We had also sent our men and ship at this tyme, but that it hath pleased god to keep
her wind bound in Ireland since before your de[par]ture to this [pre]sent, where yet
shee remayneth: By wch onely accident we have lost this season,
but doe entend (god willinge) that shee shall leave the coast of England, by the
first of August next wth fifty men furnished for that cuntry. And
doe earnestly desire before that tyme (if possible) to vnderstand from you what
proportion of victuall and munition will bee fit to send wth
them.

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Of wch ship and company we hereby offer you a full fift [par]te
if it soe please you to accept thereof, And doe entreat your effectual furtherance in
choyce of the place where wee shall sit downe, and all other favors whereof you will
bee pleased to make vs your frends [par]takers, wch we in England
shall be most willing to requite.

If of this our offer you accept Then are you to send by the returne of this ship soe
much good marchantable comodyties as doth amount to a fifth [par]te, An accompt of
the charge whereof we will send you by the ship.

[Indorsed:] Copy of a [letter] to Sr Geo: Yardley in febr. 1618.
to Virgin. from London.

Author

William Throckmorton

Transcription Source

The Records of the Virginia Company of London, edited, with an introduction and bibliography, by Susan Myra Kingsbury (Library of Congress, 1905). Digital collection made available by the Library of Congress.